Famous Quotes

"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

Johan Huizinga on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Johan Huizinga

• "An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."

• "These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."

• "History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

• "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

• "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."